Non-actual motion in language and experience
(2017) In Human cognitive processing (HCP) 59. p.205-228- Abstract
- Dynamic descriptions of static situations, e.g. The road goes through the forest, have attracted a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and “subjective motion” are often used to describe such sentences. While these terms are taken to be largely synonymous, I argue that they are analytically different, and furthermore point to different possible experiential motivations behind this phenomenon. This leads to the pluralistic and integrative framework of “non-actual motion”. Within this framework, an elicitation study with speakers of Swedish, French, and Thai was designed and conducted. The results suggest that non-actual motion expressions are conventionalized in all three languages. The... (More)
- Dynamic descriptions of static situations, e.g. The road goes through the forest, have attracted a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and “subjective motion” are often used to describe such sentences. While these terms are taken to be largely synonymous, I argue that they are analytically different, and furthermore point to different possible experiential motivations behind this phenomenon. This leads to the pluralistic and integrative framework of “non-actual motion”. Within this framework, an elicitation study with speakers of Swedish, French, and Thai was designed and conducted. The results suggest that non-actual motion expressions are conventionalized in all three languages. The language-specific resources for expressing actual motion are used, but with elements suggesting actual motion demoted. (Less)
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- author
- Blomberg, Johan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- fictive motion, semantic typology, motion semantics, subjective motion
- host publication
- Motion and Space across Languages
- series title
- Human cognitive processing (HCP)
- editor
- Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide
- volume
- 59
- pages
- 205 - 228
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85091416095
- ISSN
- 1387-6724
- ISBN
- 9789027265364
- 9789027246752
- DOI
- 10.1075/hcp.59.09bol
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 3cc1c663-344e-4808-9540-c069957baa60
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